Park Hills Circle is the atmospheric indie project of Maris Maeve O'Tierney, a singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, piano) currently based in Chicago. Debut album - All Of A Sudden (forthcoming summer 2025) - features colorful stacked vocal harmonies, warm synths, ethereal fingerstyle guitar, and soaring saxophone.
Maris grew up in Alaska and Ireland, and has musical foundations in opera and classical guitar. Park Hills Circle songs are an exploration of vocal colors and harmonies interwoven with lush instrumental arrangements that evoke landscape and movement. Park Hills Circle is at times playful and whimsical, and at times meditative and reflective — searching for wonder and depth in how we navigate our relationship with ourselves and beloved others in a complex world.
Maris is also a member of cross-genre duo Maeve & Quinn with her violinist twin sister. Their discography includes several LP and EP releases; the most recent, LP Another Door (2023), was featured in the Chicago Tribune, Earmilk, and Under the Radar Mag among others. Maeve & Quinn perform their songs, poetry in recitation, instrumental music, and storytelling in interdisciplinary performance programs — featured with the Poetry Foundation, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Maeve & Quinn have also premiered orchestral compositions with the Chicago Composers Orchestra and Anchorage (Alaska) Symphony Orchestra.